✍ Scribed by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst.
Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.
Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias; as they drink and...
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In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimiás — long-thought dead — returns to the commune,
A Sátántangó, Krasznahorkai László első regénye 1985-ben jelent meg, s a rendkívüli kritikai elismerés és olvasói érdeklődés rögtön a kortárs magyar próza egyik alapművévé avatta. A szokatlan hangvételű történet egy olyan világlátásból született, amely még nem törte ketté a világot, s épp ettől lesz